Svn mirror seed has UUID wrong

[Simon L. B. Nielsen]

On 21 Jul 2012, at 21:25, Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote:

> If you don't have a local doc or ports svn mirror you can stop reading now.
> 
> When creating the doc and ports svn mirrors, which the seeds on http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/subversion/ are created from, I forgot to set the repository UUID to the same as the one on the master repositories. This may e.g. cause problems for people using a mirror and switching to directly access svn.freebsd.org later.
> 
> To fix this I have created new seeds for doc and ports. If you have a local mirror you can either download the new seed files and use that, or just change the uuid on your mirror using svnadmin.
> 
> [doc]
> Master repo UUID: c2e8774f-c49f-e111-b436-862b2bbc8956
> Fixed seed tar: http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/subversion/svnmirror-doc-r39237.tar.xz
> Command to fix a mirror: svnadmin setuuid /home/svn/doc c2e8774f-c49f-e111-b436-862b2bbc8956
> 
> [ports]
> Master repo UUID: 35697150-7ecd-e111-bb59-0022644237b5
> Fixed seed tar:  http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/subversion/svnmirror-ports-r301235.tar.xz
> Command to fix a mirror: svnadmin setuuid /home/svn/ports 35697150-7ecd-e111-bb59-0022644237b5

Hey,

Sorry, I forgot to mention that any svn checkout from a repository with the incorrect UUID will not work with the repository after the UUID has been changed.

It's possible svn can be convinced to work with a 'new' repository, sorry - I have no idea.

-- 
Simon L. B. Nielsen